Bottle-locking device.



v "F, PAULSON. BOTTLE LOCKING DEVICE. PPLLGLTION FILED 111111.22, 1911.

v Patented 11611.20. 1912.'

FRED PAULSO, OF GENEVA, ILLINOIS.

BOTTLE-LOCKING DEVICE..

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patentes nel). 2o, 191,2.

Application filed March 22, 1911. Serial No` 616,264.

Tora-ZZ whom 'it 'may concern: Beffit. known that. I, Fano PAULsonua subjectv of the. King of Sweden, residing at Geneva, in the county of Kane and State of illinois, have invented new and useful Improvements in Bottle-Locking Devices, of which the following. is a full, clear, concise, and eigact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawing, forming a part of this specification.

Mv invent-ion relates to retaining devices for milk bottles and the like, and especially pertains to retaining devices of the kind which are provided with a lock constructed or arranged so as to cooperate with a door, window, or the likeain such a manner that the lock cannotI helreleased until the door or window lilas been opened.I

lt is the object of niv invention to improve upon devices of this character, and simplify the general construction thereof.

fl'iottle retaining device constructed in ati'm'dance with my invention is described in the following speciiication. and shown in the accompanying drawing, in which:

Figure 1 is a plan of the retaining device, showing the saine applied to the casing of a door; Fig. 2 is a Aplan on a larger scale: Fig. a vertical section taken on the line of Fig. and Fig. l is a sectional end view` the section being taken on the line. -l--iot Fig. 2.

V`Referring to the drawingyl()` indicates a wall plate which is adapted to be secured` as by screws 11,.to the door casing, outside the door, and adjacent the. hinges thereof. l-lingedY to the wall plate 10 is a support plate 1Q having formed in the frontl edge thereof a recess 13 of convenient size for receiving the neck of a milk bottle. Hinged to the support plate 1Q, at the front edge thereof, is a locking plate 14 which is formed at its inner edge with a recess 15 of corresponding shape to the recess 13 of the support plate 12'. `When ainilk bottle has been hung in the recess 18 of the support plate 1Q. it ma'v be locked in position by swinging the locking plate into the position shown in Fig. 2, in which position it is inaii'itained by a catch. ln the side' of the locking` plate 1l opposite to the hinge, is a shoulder 1G preferably formed by stamping up the metal of the locking plate. The shoulder 1G is engaged b v a hook 17 which extends upward `through an aperture 18 (Fig. et) in the sup` port plate, and which forms part of a lever 19 pivoted, intermediate its ends, ina casing- 20 which extends downward from the snpport plate 12, at one side thereof. The lever 19 is normally held in, its uppermost-.position by means of a leaf spring 21 secured to the bottom of the casing 20, but it may be moved down by the action of a ltransversev sliding latch 22 which is slidably mounted in a pair of vert-ical recesses inthe casingl 20 toward t-he rear end of the lever 19 and he? neath the lever. ln the upper edge ofthe latch 22 is cut al recess for receiving the lever 19, one side of which recess is inclined as at Q3 (Fig. 4t). By pulling upon the latchZ the hookl? of the lever 1.9 may be caused to move downward out of engagement with the shoulder 16 of the locking plate 14., owing to the action of the surface Q3 in forcing the rear end of the lever 19 upward. The strength of the spring 21 is suiiicient'to return the latch 22 to its normal position, by the action of the rear end of the lever 19 upon the surface 23 of the latch.- The support plate 12 carries a bentover lug Q4 adjacent the aperture 18, which lug serves to prevent the locking plate 14 from heilig lifted up 'aIEl/out of engagement with the hook 1T. ,'f ie front end of the lug 24 is flared upward, as at 2o, to facilitate inserting the end of the locking plate beneath the lug. The locking plate is provided with air y serves as a handle.

Fig. 1 shows the retainingv device with a bottle locked therein and with the door of the houseshut against the latch 22.' Under these conditions it is not possible to move the lockingplate 14 to the right, owing to the fact that the hook 17 engages the shoulder 16`thereof, and the latch 29 cannot be moved to release the hook. The locking plate cannot be swung to the leftowing to the presence of the neck of the bottle. hen, however, the house door is opened, the latch 9.2 can be pulled outward, with the effect that the hook 17 is depressed, and the locking plate 14 thereby released. The locking plate can then be, swung to the right and the milk bottle removed from the support plate 12. The whole device is then folded up against the wall'plate 10 so asto be out of the .way until it isl swung down when another milk bottle is to be placed therein. y The locking plate lmay always be opened when no bottle is present in the retaining device. This is due to the .fact

upwardly extending project-ion 26 which' that the locking plate can always be swung' to thc left, the hook 17 being forced down by the engagement of the locking plate with its beveled front end. This is a considerable advantage since it insures that the devicey can :always be in condition to rcw ceire a bottle, it being impossible, except by the iiisertion ot a` bottle, to loclt the retaining device eo that it-cannot be opened by Swinging the locking plate lfiA to the lett. te has been said, however, as soon as a bottie han been placed in the retainingn device, the device cannot be opened until the house door is opened.

Haring thus described iny inif'ention what claim as new and desire to secure by liett ters Patent is:

ingr ot the locking plate in one direction and Said latch prerente swinging in the other direction.

n, milk bottle retaining device coina support incinber adapted to be at- Q the canine" of a door or window, l member, Said members being adapt ed to receive a inilli; bottle between them, and Said locking niei'nber being pivoted to Seid support member so ne 'to be capable of being mung tln'ogh a complete circle animee?! about its pirot'in-one direction, and a reeaeablc latch carried by said support meniber and disposed in such position thereon as to engage the door or window when the de rice is attached to the casing, whereby, when a bottle is in the device, the bottle prevents swinging of the lockingplate in one direction and said latch prevents swinging in the other direction except when the door or window has been opened.

3. A. milk bottle retaining device for attaelnnent to the casing of a door or window comprising a horizontally disposed Support plate haring a notch in one edge thereof,-a lockingl plate piroted to said support plate in euch manner as: to be capable oit being swung through :1 eoinpletc circle about its pivot in oner direction, said locking plate beingl toi-ined with a. shoulde and also haring a notch formed in one edge thereof, the notches in said support plate and Said locking),` plato being so arranged as to forni, to-

gether, an aperture suited to receive the' noch ot a mill; bottle, a spring pressed latch adapted to engage behind the shoulder of said locking plate, thereby to prevent said locking plate troni being` swung in the other direction, said hitch haring;l an inclined "tace, whereby, when a bottle is in the device, the bottle prevents Swinging ot the locking plate in one direction and said latch pre vente swinging` in the other direction.

ln witness whereohyl have hereunto subscribed my naine in the presence of two wit nennen.

FRED PAULSON. Witnesses:

O. lil NELSON, l. Lone. 

